I have never used Ant, so I do nkt have the urge to script my build. I have also read the blog
post you mentioned. The JARs I was trying to dynamically download from. "non-Maven" URL are,
as I said
- not available on Central (I suggested it to the author, but he refused
and keeps committing all dependencies to his SCM)
- not available on any other public Maven repo
- not even built with Maven.
Our company even has an internal Nexus, but
- I kinda dislike manually uploading external JARs there
- I was in a situation where I did not have access to that Nexus instance
and wondered if it was not somehow possible to bootstrap external
JARs directly with Maven. Thus, I ended up using the combination of
download-maven-plugin and maven-install-plugin, both tied to the first
phase available, named validate. This works nicely if I call validate
separately, but I wanted to do it Maven style in one call. I think it is a
design flaw in Maven that it behaves differently for validate depending on
which phase has been called. I think the principle of least surprise makes
users expect a different (consistent) behaviour. I do not see any problems
In an approach which executes validate before checking the downloads
needed for compile.
Having said that and further explained my situation, do you have any suggestion how to solve
this problem in a clean, canonical Maven way, given a single condition: no private Nexus or
external Maven repo is available and I want one-stop shopping and clean bootstrapping right
from Maven. I think this is a simple enough and understandable requirement. It is actually
what I have started using Maven for.
> Am 07.11.2013 um 21:23 schrieb Doug Douglass <douglass.doug@gmail.com>:
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Alexander Kriegisch <
> Alexander@kriegisch.name> wrote:
>
>> Only "mvn compile" yields the exact same result as "mvn validate compile",
>> I just did it like this explicitly to make a point and show clearly what
>> hapens. So again: Why, pray tell, does my two-phase build work if first I
>> only do "mvn validate" and then "mvn compile", but not with only "mvn
>> compile"? The question is still unanswered. Two people told me I made a
>> mistake but did not explain which one and where the different behaviour
>> comes from.
> You're right, I didn't answer your original question. The different is
> because "mvn validate compile" and/or "mvn compile" is a single invocation
> of maven and dependencies are resolved once (by default, w/o any other
> plugins/configuration). "mvn validate; mvn compile" are 2 separate
> invocations of maven; the first one does your "download external,
> non-mavenised" business, which makes those dependencies available for the
> second.
>
> I still suggest you read Steven's post as you're question/problem indicates
> you're heading down the not-uncommon path of trying to script your build
> (like we all did in the Ant days) vs. giving into The Maven Way. There's
> lots of similar conversations in the list archives, the blog post is the
> result of many such "debates". I'll apologize in advance if this is not
> your case.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
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